Baylor Dismisses Gay Alumnus From Advisory Board

[flowomo]

from: http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/10/baylor

Many colleges would be thrilled to have an alumnus as loyal as Tim Smith.

He graduated from Baylor University in 1983, with a degree in accounting, worked his way up in the business world, picking up a Harvard MBA, working with a venture capital firm, and founding a technology company. In the last decade, he has personally given about $65,000 in gifts to Baylor, and he raised another $60,000 to endow a fund in honor of a business colleague and the colleague’s wife — the couple had met at Baylor.

For the last nine years, Smith has given an annual talk in an entrepreneurship class, and for the last five, he has served on the advisory committee for the business school.

But this fall, he received an unexpected call from the business dean telling him he would need to leave the advisory committee because he is gay.

(more at link)

[BR_Parkway]

1. He should ask for a refund

[Skinner]

2. Un-fucking-believeable.

But... But... I thought that all of our universities were run by libs. :sarcasm:

[flowomo]

4. sure is....

btw, Skinner, any chance you'd want to put my column on the front page this week. I have reprint rights with credit to my home paper, The Sentinel.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4278517&mesg_id=4278517

[Maat]

3. That is SO sad.

They took the money and time - and THEN they booted him off the committee.

What jerks!

Hope donations to Baylor fall like a rock!

[xchrom]

5. hey this is america!

baylor can show it's bigoted ass to the whole wide world and get away with it.

damn it! this shit AIN'T right -- and baylor should have to fuckin pay.

this is soo unbelievably rotten -- that guy played by all the hetero rules -- raised big bucks for them -- and this is what he gets.